06-07-2010, 02:24 PM
Dear e-magine
The experience I have is that The Watchtower Society doesn't disfellowship anybody that leave, so to speak glide out and become more and more inactive, for at last never be seen at a meeting.
The situations where they disfellowship is, if a person becomes active in agitating against their teachings and still have contact to members of the Society.
If a person leaves and no longer are active in any religion or belief system or either are posting at internet, which simply means not longer are recoqnized as a member of the Society, they don't care about such a person.
If they really would believe in the Scriptures and that they solely own and have the right to Pat Pend the truth, which mostly of them do, they would have recoqnized their Christian responsibility in general and in accordance to what comes forth in James chapter 5 versus 19 and 20, but the Society doesn't allow members of the Rank and File to pay such persons a visit, in question of spiritual subjects, only their well trained lakeys, the Elders, strictly in opposition to what the Scriptures tells us.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
They are aducated to only love those, who are willing to worship their Idol, The Watchtower Society and their doctrines of men, but are very afraid of that anybody shall explore their hipocrisy, in opposite case they don't care.
Ps. I know many fine intelligent and loving Elders, which are really seriouslyand really cares, but unfortunately are there too many, that are taking orders at their job, without any education and are cleaning windows and flors during the day, even that I respect all kind of honestly works, but are subdued by their wifes at home, then when they enter the Kingdom Halls, in their dark lounge suits, they becomes Kings with power over the Rank and Files.
The Scriptures describes it very well in proverbs chapter 30 versus 21 to 23:
21 For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:
22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
The experience I have is that The Watchtower Society doesn't disfellowship anybody that leave, so to speak glide out and become more and more inactive, for at last never be seen at a meeting.
The situations where they disfellowship is, if a person becomes active in agitating against their teachings and still have contact to members of the Society.
If a person leaves and no longer are active in any religion or belief system or either are posting at internet, which simply means not longer are recoqnized as a member of the Society, they don't care about such a person.
If they really would believe in the Scriptures and that they solely own and have the right to Pat Pend the truth, which mostly of them do, they would have recoqnized their Christian responsibility in general and in accordance to what comes forth in James chapter 5 versus 19 and 20, but the Society doesn't allow members of the Rank and File to pay such persons a visit, in question of spiritual subjects, only their well trained lakeys, the Elders, strictly in opposition to what the Scriptures tells us.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
They are aducated to only love those, who are willing to worship their Idol, The Watchtower Society and their doctrines of men, but are very afraid of that anybody shall explore their hipocrisy, in opposite case they don't care.
Ps. I know many fine intelligent and loving Elders, which are really seriouslyand really cares, but unfortunately are there too many, that are taking orders at their job, without any education and are cleaning windows and flors during the day, even that I respect all kind of honestly works, but are subdued by their wifes at home, then when they enter the Kingdom Halls, in their dark lounge suits, they becomes Kings with power over the Rank and Files.
The Scriptures describes it very well in proverbs chapter 30 versus 21 to 23:
21 For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:
22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
e-magine Wrote:
Derek Wrote:
Hi,
For me it was part of a process that took several years, but the last straw was in the early eighties when the WTS tried to purge all those who did not go along with the F&DS 100%. I quietly stopped going to meetings then, it was perhaps a decade later I/we disassociated ourselves only to find out relatively recently, after over a further decade later, we had been disfellowshipped in absentia.
I was already thoroughly well aware, when I stopped going to meetings in the early 80's, how alien to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ was much of their treadmill schedule, out of context teaching and intellectual dishonesty, but the emotional attachment of c.40 years held me for some time.
Derek
For me it was part of a process that took several years, but the last straw was in the early eighties when the WTS tried to purge all those who did not go along with the F&DS 100%. I quietly stopped going to meetings then, it was perhaps a decade later I/we disassociated ourselves only to find out relatively recently, after over a further decade later, we had been disfellowshipped in absentia.
I was already thoroughly well aware, when I stopped going to meetings in the early 80's, how alien to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ was much of their treadmill schedule, out of context teaching and intellectual dishonesty, but the emotional attachment of c.40 years held me for some time.
Derek
There are millions of inactive JWs that don't go to meetings. Are they to be DF'd also?!?